They're going to have to make changes to demon hunter if they want to implement it into WoW. People can deny it all they want but a demon hunter is pretty much a petless melee warlock. I expect blizzard to make some lore about a new generation of demon hunters that are different from the old ones, similar to death knight generations.

could work. That way a ranged crossbow spec would be given a good chance at making into the game. I have been reading all this forums replies for the past 7 or 10 min and all the requests seem to point into a direction that would make the demon hunter use mail, because of armor equality, glaives & crossbows because another ranged weapon user is long overdue, a tank spec with agility stats and weapon blocks. That all can be answered in THIS thread =)

could work. That way a ranged crossbow spec would be given a good chance at making into the game. I have been reading all this forums replies for the past 7 or 10 min and all the requests seem to point into a direction that would make the demon hunter use mail, because of armor equality, glaives & crossbows because another ranged weapon user is long overdue, a tank spec with agility stats and weapon blocks. That all can be answered in THIS thread =)

Except monk tanks use leather and other weapons. And the way I see it, a demon hunter tank spec would be an anti-caster archetype. When were there rogue tanks lol? There is a difference between pseudo/off tanking and main tanking...

Except monk tanks use leather and other weapons. And the way I see it, a demon hunter tank spec would be an anti-caster archetype. When were there rogue tanks lol? There is a difference between pseudo/off tanking and main tanking...

WoW beta. Rogues used shields. So did hunters. They were considered viable enough tanks for 5-man dungeons, as were Shaman.

And an Anti-caster Archetype... You mean like Death Knights?

Weapon blocks, anti-caster archetype. You just made leather Death Knights.

I went with a combo of both, an Illidan Demon hunter would be interesting and what I'd pick over the Diablo version, more fitting for WoW but feel like they could have some fun mixing and matching.. at least one a pure ranged and one pure melee.

D3 monk is a holy warrior, based more on western style warrior-priest archetype.
WoW monk is more eastern style monk focusing on mysticism and kungfu.

As for demon hunters. How i would like demon hunters to be implemented:

warglaives forever, give them a skill (ala runeforging) that allows them to covert onehanders into warglaives, more work for the art department sure but these are Demon Hunters we are talking about here.

make them use mail, we have enough leather users already.

3 specs:
Melee dual wield dps, obvious.
Caster dual wield dps, thats right double caster weps baby... sounds OP but they could balance it easily.
Dual wielding tank, I thought DKs were going to be DW tanks when they first announced them, i was disappointed they never went that way with them... I think it would be badass, parry with two weapons!

Definitely Illidan demon hunters. (Or maybe implement it into combat rogues when they finally decide to revamp rogue like they did warlocks)
I would like to be able to dual wield crossbows on my hunter though. (Maybe make it a survival only thing too?)

Hell, I'll be damned if they do this when they revamp rogue:

Nightblade: A ninja-like assassin mastered in poison and ambushing their preys before vanishing back into the darkness (Combining the current assasination and subtlety)

Demonhunter: Drawing strength from the demons they have fell, devoted to slay all demons on Azeroth and beyond. (Combat rogue with unique demonhunter abilities)

Bladedancer: Bolstering their abilities with songs, (they sing their enemies to death), ok not that, they are adapted in raining deaths on their foe from afar, attacking with both their songs and their magically enchanted blades (a ranged dps, they can still be using the melee weapons as in other specs, similiar to the new shuriken toss which replace melee attacks with a range attack).

The three things I want in WoW, demon hunters, bards, and distinction between rogue specs.
This could replace the new class they try to introduce every other expansion, and also help with the low pop of rogues.

What I want, more than anything in WoW, is a class that can tame demons, just as hunters tame beasts. Also I wish that Unholy DKs could tame undead in place of their ghoul. But on topic, I would rather it be very close to Illidan, much like the Deathknights who trained under Arthas, and his lot.

D3 monk is a holy warrior, based more on western style warrior-priest archetype.
WoW monk is more eastern style monk focusing on mysticism and kungfu.

Actually, wrong.. the Western Warrior priest style is more align with the DnD Cleric or Paladin. Some guy who wears chainmail under robes while he beats you to death with a large mace while shouting "REPENT EVIL DOERS"

Ironically.. the D3 priest is very much based on Eastern Monks, and is a better represenation of them than the WoW monk... who seems to be more of a soothsayer martial artist mix.